Improvement in clothes-pins



e. c. EASTMAN. CLOTHES-PINS;

No.179169. Patented June 27.1876.

N.FETE.RS, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGYON, 0 C.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIGE.

GEORGE O. EASTMAN, OF LEWISTON, MAI NE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 79,169, dated J une27, 1876 application filed April 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE O. EASTMAN, of Lewiston, of the county ofAndroscoggin and State of Maine, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Clothes-Pins; and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawing, which is a side view of one of my improvedarticles.

It is made of a single piece of wire, bent in manner as represented-thatis, first in the middle, so as to there form an elastic spring or eye,a; next, the two legs or prongs A A are to be crossed on one another, asshown at 1); next, after having brought them into parallelism, each ofthem, near its middle, is to be bent inward, as shown at c, and thenceturned upward into parallelism with itself, after which it is to bebowed, as shown at 0, so as to form recessed jaws, to receive aclothesline when grasped by them.

I do not claim a clothes-pin made of wood, and having each prongturnedinward and upward, as shown in the United States Patent No.119,938. Myclothespin, though resembling such wooden clothes-pin, hasimportant differences: first, it has the elastic eye a, which not onlybecomes to the legs or prongs an additional spring, but enables theclothespin to be strung upon a cord passed through t such eye second, ithas jaws recessed at their middle, as shown at e 6, whereby a piece ofclothing or an article, when held by the pin on a clothes-line, is keptaway from the points of the prongs, so as not to be liable to catch uponand be torn by them while the pin may be in the act of being disengagedfrom the line and article thereon.

. Myclothes-pin I usually make of wire plated with nickel or zinc, toprevent it from being oxidated and soiling an article of clothingwhen-it is applied thereto.

I would remark that I am aware that it is not new to make a clothes-pinof wire, and, therefore, do not claim such; nor do I claim one made ofwire in the manner as represented in the United States Patent N o. 78,523, which has a hooked point to one jaw, and it also has arms, toenable its jaws to be opened apart by the hand of a person applied tothem, my clothes-pin having no such devices.

I claim- My improvedwire clothes-pin, made as set -forth-viz., with 'theelastic eye a to its prongs, and having each of the latter bent upwardand inward, and formed with the holding-recess c, and arranged with sucheye, all as shown and described. w

, GEORGE O. EASTMAN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow.

